The influence of early linguistic skills and family factors on literacy acquisition in Chinese children: Follow-up from age 3 to age 11
ARTICLE
Mengmeng Su, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, China ; Hugo Peyre, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (ENS, CNRS, EHESS), France ; Shuang Song, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, China ; Catherine McBride, Department of Psychology ; Twila Tardif, Center for Human Growth and Development, United States ; Hong Li, Yuping Zhang, Department of Psychology, China ; Weilan Liang, Preventive Health Care Branch, China ; Zhixiang Zhang, Department of Pediatrics, China ; Franck Ramus, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (ENS, CNRS, EHESS), France ; Hua Shu, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, China
Learning and Instruction Volume 49, Number 1, ISSN 0959-4752 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The present longitudinal study investigated the predictive power of preschool linguistic skills and early family factors on children's comprehensive literacy skills at the end of primary school in 262 Chinese children. The results indicated that a substantial (20–34%) share of variance of 5th grade (age 11) literacy skills in Chinese could be explained by early family factors (age 3) and linguistic skills (age 3–age 5). Family socioeconomic status and parent-child reading tuition were associated with different literacy measures. A differential pattern of prediction was also observed among different literacy skills. Furthermore, path analyses indicated that the relationships between early family factors and literacy skills at age 11 were mediated by specific linguistic and cognitive skills at preschool.
Citation
Su, M., Peyre, H., Song, S., McBride, C., Tardif, T., Li, H., Zhang, Y., Liang, W., Zhang, Z., Ramus, F. & Shu, H. (2017). The influence of early linguistic skills and family factors on literacy acquisition in Chinese children: Follow-up from age 3 to age 11. Learning and Instruction, 49(1), 54-63. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 19, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/200015/.
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